The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century apart, created an astonishing originality and independence in English Building. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-end-of-the-old-world-order-1530-to-1650 Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. http://www.gresham.ac.uk

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1. "This is a case in point"
2. 15:13 I wonder if this local Civic Action is where the United States gets tradition of local control of pre-University schools.
3. It's interesting to me that it's Northern Europe that is the avant garde in religion, but then they cling more tenaciously to the Gothic architectural forms for another century while in Southern Europe they remain loyal Catholics yet they can hardly wait to return to Classicism in architecture. It's as though change in one area impedes change in the other.
   
   Of course, the Italians never did fully embrace the Gothic. It was too French and too Northern. ("Not Invented Here.") It could also be at least partly due to climactic differences. The harsher light in Southern Europe favors the shadows cast by the colonnades and heavy entablature of the classical portico while the softer light of Northern Europe favors the large windows of the Gothic.
4. Please take a look at Bronte Whitney's Architecture videos. We are not all old fuddy duddys, and I have lectured on Architecture for many decades. Some Modern Architecture is good and some is ugly, but I am afraid one has to move with the times.
5. All architecture was once modern.
6. Thank you for posting the video.
7. I want that book!